The above "Yarrabah Aboriginal Shire Council Planning Scheme: Rural Zone Precinct Map" is attached to a legally binding agreement between the Yarrabah Aboriginal Shire Council and the Gunggandji People (original owners of the Yarrabah township area) formally registered with the Commonwealth Government on the the 4th October 2011.
For the most of the residents and original owners of the area shown in the map above, the Yarrabah Local Government Indigenous Land Use Agreement Ql2011/016 (including the above designated PINK 'township' areas, RED 'bush living' areas, and BROWN 'rural' areas) was the outcome of almost two decades of expensive, socially and emotionally costly, intense, adversarial, and difficult legal processes and negotiations culminating in their authorizing, settling, and together laying the foundations for Yarrabah's future growth and development.
Over recent months, weeks, and days it has been a serious, regularly expressed concern to some local residents and landowners that the new proposed statutory land use plans for Yarrabah's future growth and development:
i. ought be wholly consistent with the kind of future growth and development formally agreed in the Yarrabah Local Government and other Indigenous Land Use Agreements (ILUAs)
ii. must NOT be inconsistent with, and must NOT significantly differ from the future growth and development formally authorised and agreed in the Yarrabah Local Government and other Indigenous Land Use Agreements (ILUA's)
For those local residents and landowners comparing:
TOP: the Local Government planning scheme 'rural precinct' map (see above)
(as scheduled to the Yarrabah Local Government ILUA)
BOTTOM: the proposed Yarrabah statutory land use planning mapping (see below)
(scheduled to the draft Yarrabah planning scheme)
Comparing the two maps; it does not take much to see the RED bush living areas appearing to have totally dissolved to naught, and the BROWN rural zoning having almost wholly diminished down to almost naught
It does not take much searching to find possibly significant inconsistencies and differences between that which was agreed by the Yarrabah Aboriginal Shire Council in Indigenous Land Use Agreements, and what is being proposed by the Yarrabah Aboriginal Shire Council within their current draft statutory land use plans.
The draft Yarrabah planning scheme itself states, without explanation or justification, that
"2.2.1.3 ..(5) .. The Local Government ILUA also includes draft planning scheme mapping in the schedules that attach to the ILUA, that will be inconsistent with this planning scheme"
It is perhaps fortunate the State may have recently contracted RPS Planners to review the statutory land use plans (planning scheme they have drafted) looking for inconsistencies of the above kind (advice given to local Aboriginal property holder/s, 7 August 2015) .. being a review of the current draft Yarrabah Planning Scheme that Aboriginal residents and landholders I am assisting will be looking forward to seeing sooner rather than later.
i. ought be wholly consistent with the kind of future growth and development formally agreed in the Yarrabah Local Government and other Indigenous Land Use Agreements (ILUAs)
ii. must NOT be inconsistent with, and must NOT significantly differ from the future growth and development formally authorised and agreed in the Yarrabah Local Government and other Indigenous Land Use Agreements (ILUA's)
For those local residents and landowners comparing:
TOP: the Local Government planning scheme 'rural precinct' map (see above)
(as scheduled to the Yarrabah Local Government ILUA)
BOTTOM: the proposed Yarrabah statutory land use planning mapping (see below)
(scheduled to the draft Yarrabah planning scheme)
Comparing the two maps; it does not take much to see the RED bush living areas appearing to have totally dissolved to naught, and the BROWN rural zoning having almost wholly diminished down to almost naught
It does not take much searching to find possibly significant inconsistencies and differences between that which was agreed by the Yarrabah Aboriginal Shire Council in Indigenous Land Use Agreements, and what is being proposed by the Yarrabah Aboriginal Shire Council within their current draft statutory land use plans.
The draft Yarrabah planning scheme itself states, without explanation or justification, that
"2.2.1.3 ..(5) .. The Local Government ILUA also includes draft planning scheme mapping in the schedules that attach to the ILUA, that will be inconsistent with this planning scheme"
It is perhaps fortunate the State may have recently contracted RPS Planners to review the statutory land use plans (planning scheme they have drafted) looking for inconsistencies of the above kind (advice given to local Aboriginal property holder/s, 7 August 2015) .. being a review of the current draft Yarrabah Planning Scheme that Aboriginal residents and landholders I am assisting will be looking forward to seeing sooner rather than later.